• Vicki Sepielli at Kiwi Fleur says wedding work is her passion and she takes pride in the fact it’s somebody’s wedding day and a special time. She’s honored to be included and tries to make it magical for them.

• Elisha and Andreas Argentinis own a company called Metal Pressions that makes and sells handmade personalized jewelry online. They say their craftsmanship, design options, shopping experience and exclusive online jewelry design software make them unique.

• Attorney Brad Harmon says employers need to be aware of new requirements regarding OSHA Hazard Communications that will start to take effect this year and are designed to bring the United States into alignment with a worldwide system designed to improve safety and provide additional health protection for America’s workers.

• Personal financial planner Pat Brooks offers resolutions for improving your financial condition in 2013 but cautions that as we declare new personal and professional goals they should be approached with a plan and specific targets.

• Dan Elder continues his discussion of why U.S. businesses can’t find the skilled employees they need even when potential workers are knocking on their doors. This week, he explores the impact on skilled tradesmen of sending our manufacturing overseas.

S.C. Ports: Let cruise permit move to courts

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The South Carolina State Ports Authority has asked state regulators to allow a challenge to a permit for a new $35 million Charleston cruise terminal to head directly to court.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control last month approved a permit to add new pilings under an existing riverfront warehouse for the new terminal. In doing so, regulators said the terminal doesn’t change what has been happening on the waterfront of a city that has had a port for centuries.

Opponents of the city’s expanded cruise industry are appealing the permit and, at its meeting Thursday, the DHEC board will consider whether to review the issue.

Attorneys for the Ports Authority, in a letter to the DHEC board on Monday, wrote that “opponents intend on pursuing this matter in a request for a contested case hearing before the South Carolina Administrative Law Court in continuation of their ongoing crusade against the cruise business.”

The letter asked the DHEC board not to conduct another review of the permit at the agency level but to allow the parties to move to the courts “in the most expeditious manner possible.”

The permit can be appealed through the Administrative Law Court and the issue could then go to circuit court.